Tag: Patrick Foster
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Episode 2053: 4 Love Songs for Valentine’s Day
Happy Valentine’s Day to all! We take a break from our regular programming to have Patrick bring you four songs about love (and a special surprise at the end of the episode).
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Episode 2044: Jim and Patrick Pick the Best Music of 2024: Jesse Welles, La Luz, Adrianne Lenker, Mdou Moctar
Happy New Year and welcome to the Best of 2024 series! We’ve wrapped up the listener portion of the series and today, Jim and Patrick pick their favorites from last year. They are Jesse Welles, La Luz, Adrianne Lenker and Mdou Moctar.
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Episode 2041: ’80s Album Madness – Bracket Reveal
It’s time for another Suburbs Pod Bracket Challenge! This year is ’80s albums!! On today’s episode, we reveal the field of 64. Jim and Patrick are joined by guest commentators Jason Goebel and Bill Mulligan.
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Episode 1993: Bluegrass 4-Pack Part 4: Progressive Bluegrass AKA Newgrass
It’s time to crack the final can of our Bluegrass 4-Pack! It contains the history of progressive bluegrass, when younger musicians began to expand and enhance the traditional sounds of Bill Monroe and Flatt and Scruggs.
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Episode 1992: Bluegrass 4-Pack Part 3: The Festival Movement
We’re onto part three of the Bluegrass 4-Pack today, in which we take a look at the birth of the bluegrass festival movement, which began with two seminal events in Virginia in the 1960s.
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Episode 1991: Bluegrass 4-Pack Part 2: Flatt and Scruggs
We open another can from the Bluegrass 4-Pack today, as Patrick outlines the remarkable career of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. They left Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys in 1948 and went on to take the music to a whole new audience and level of popularity.
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Episode 1983: Perfect Pop: “Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett
While you sort through all the Halloween candy you got, Patrick is putting Spooky Season to bed by inducting the 1962 classic “Monster Mash” into the Perfect Pop pantheon. It’s sure to be a graveyard smash!
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Episode 1982: A Halloween Treat From Suburbs Radio
Patrick has been listening to all the Halloween programming on Suburbs Radio this week and picked out some musical treats for you to enjoy. Happy Halloween to all!
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Episode 1971: September 2024 New Music 2: Alan Sparhawk – “White Roses, My God”
Patrick chimes in with a new music pick from September 2024, an album from Alan Sparhawk, formerly the guitarist and vocalist in Low.
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Episode 1959: Patrick’s Old-Time Music Week, Part 5: Three Blind Singers
It’s the final episode of Patrick’s Old-Time Music Week and he wraps things up with a discussion of three important blind singers of the country blues: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Blake and Blind Willie McTell.